Social and cultural history

Nearly four decades after Sunny Okosun posited, Which Way Nigeria?

Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman from the borderlands of South Texas, played a pivotal role in the little-known history of the peyote trade.

His face has appeared on T-shirts, postage stamps, jigsaw puzzles, posters, and an Andy Warhol print.

Struggles over land and water have determined much of New Mexico's long history.

When you first meet me, you might think that I am a mean guy who is all about business and does not talk to my family as much.

Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siecle Spain argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain was part of a larger project to suppress the growing female emancipation movement by sexualizing the female subject.

How many times have you heard incomplete facts explaining why the dinosaurs and prehistoric man walked on the earth?

A historical look at the roots of management theory reveals its flaws and offers important lessons for today's leadersFor four thousand years, kings and queens ruled the known world, while management experts-in the guises of sages, clerics, and courtiers of all kinds-told them how to do it.

Nacion Genizara examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genizaro people.

The Age of Dissent argues that the defining feature of the Age of Revolutions in Latin America was the emergence of dissent as an inescapable component of political life.

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During her sixty-three-year reign, Queen Victoria gathered around herself a household dedicated to her service.

From 1983 until 1991, Glam Metal was the sound of American culture.

Veronica has been down lately because of a lot that is going on in the world.

Celebrated novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the worlds greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the citys many hues have come to shape its history and identity.

Their parents worked as miners and lace workers, but by the mid-twentieth century new opportunities beckoned for the children of the Midlands.

At the dawn of the 1700s the Natchez viewed the first Francophones in the Lower Mississippi Valley as potential inductees to their chiefdom.

On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the past.

Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana's most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present.

America's Battle against the COVID-19 Pandemic and Social Injustice focuses on one of the most tumultuous, historical, and unforgettable times in America.

From June 12, 2020, until the passage of the state law making the occupation a felony two months later, peaceful protesters set up camp at Nashvilles Legislative Plaza and renamed it for Ida B.

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Benevolent Orders, the Sons of Ham, Prince Hall Freemasonsthese and other African American lodges created a social safety net for members across Tennessee.

The second volume of Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times contains sixteen essays on Tennessee women in the forefront of the political, economic, and cultural history of the state and assesses the national and sometimes international scope of their influence.

The Spanish introduced European livestock to the New World-not only cattle and horses but also mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry.

A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of viewIn Masters of Empire, the historian Michael McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Mormons (the Latter-day Saints) are a fascinating people.

The most thorough account ever written of southwestern life in the early seventeenth century, this engaging book was first published in 1630 as an official report to the king of Spain by Fray Alonso de Benavides, a Portuguese Franciscan who was the third head of the mission churches of New Mexico.

For her first forty years, Jo Haldemans life followed a conventional path.

This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city.

Despite over four hundred years of slavery and intimidation, the Black man continues to be dehumanized, delegitimized, degraded, and destroyed.

For years, I have been terrified of the one thing that sets mankind apart from all other beings on this planet-the human experience.

In A Late Encounter with the Civil War, Michael Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States.

In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society.

Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically been portrayed as a time of great and unrelenting depression.

Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants.

Black Lives Matter, like its predecessor movements, embodies flesh and blood through local organizing, national and global protests, hunger strikes, and numerous acts of civil disobedience.

God used one ruler to change the future of Rome and Christianity in Rome forever.

From the foremost authority on the famed Georgia barrier island, here is the first in-depth look at Jekyll Island's early history.